I finished this a few minutes ago. It's been shown a couple of times as a Work in Progress -- maybe I'll delete those WIP images later, but for now I'll leave them up for comparison.
The saga of Bob & Doug McKenzie needs no further explanation -- if you don't know who they are, go to my Scraps area and look for the WIPs for the story.
The details were time consuming -- for instance, Bob's buttons -- all of them real buttons that SF fans wear, even the one for AC/DC. The odd flat, white thing with a green striped head is a Gestetner wax mimeo stencil. You type on them, and wrap them around the drum of a mimeo machine to print a page. The objects under Bob's hand are fanzines printed by mimeo on a rough sort of coloured paper called "twiltone." That's a pencil in his other hand. I expect that even those of you reared on the internet still know what a pencil is, though you may be a little fuzzy on the technique of using it. The boxy grey thing is an old-fashioned portable electric typewriter -- totally not programmable in any way! Instead of cartons of empty beer bottles in the background, I've stacked reams of mimeo paper in the distinctive blue that Canadian fanzines were once known for. Gestetner paper was wrapped in white and red waxed paper, with labels on the folded over ends. Did I miss anything? Don't think so... oh, wait... notice how one of Bob's smokey plastic buttons is a different size? He must have lost the orginal and his mother sewed on one from the cuff. Now *that's* detail!
The saga of Bob & Doug McKenzie needs no further explanation -- if you don't know who they are, go to my Scraps area and look for the WIPs for the story.
The details were time consuming -- for instance, Bob's buttons -- all of them real buttons that SF fans wear, even the one for AC/DC. The odd flat, white thing with a green striped head is a Gestetner wax mimeo stencil. You type on them, and wrap them around the drum of a mimeo machine to print a page. The objects under Bob's hand are fanzines printed by mimeo on a rough sort of coloured paper called "twiltone." That's a pencil in his other hand. I expect that even those of you reared on the internet still know what a pencil is, though you may be a little fuzzy on the technique of using it. The boxy grey thing is an old-fashioned portable electric typewriter -- totally not programmable in any way! Instead of cartons of empty beer bottles in the background, I've stacked reams of mimeo paper in the distinctive blue that Canadian fanzines were once known for. Gestetner paper was wrapped in white and red waxed paper, with labels on the folded over ends. Did I miss anything? Don't think so... oh, wait... notice how one of Bob's smokey plastic buttons is a different size? He must have lost the orginal and his mother sewed on one from the cuff. Now *that's* detail!
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I'm curious about the irony of it being called The Great White Zine and Canada is colored light blue. :) I searched in your scraps and went back quite a ways but it was too extensive so I gave up since FA is loading things slowly. Only thing I could find in reference to this is the model set of the show you bought and modified.
I don't know... I guess it was part of the slap-dash, second-rate character of the McKenzie's "show" on SCTV. But even on the set they used, Canada was painted blue. It did work well with the original use of the art, though. I lettered it originally, "The Great Blue Zine" because Canadian fanzines at one time tended to be mimeographed on blue paper of just about that hue. Ironically, in reverting to "The Great White Zine," contemporary Canadian zines are xeroxed on white paper...
The most likely street they used is Wadsworth Crescent, a 100 ft. U off The Queensway in the West end of town. You can find photos with Google Earth, but maybe I'll post them temporarily in my Scraps. The street is not easy to find, even though it is at the end of Taymall Ave., just where it crosses The Queensway.
It's actually quite a busy neighborhood, as the Queensway is the main drag in the area. If you want a fuller view of the houses and the neighborhood (Smith Cr. just behind Wadsworth is similiar and very picturesque), send me a private note with an email address I can send the screen shots to.
It's actually quite a busy neighborhood, as the Queensway is the main drag in the area. If you want a fuller view of the houses and the neighborhood (Smith Cr. just behind Wadsworth is similiar and very picturesque), send me a private note with an email address I can send the screen shots to.
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